Real Estate Feasibility

Beyond site yield — full-stack development feasibility

Real estate feasibility software determines whether a proposed development is financially viable — before capital is committed. It integrates cost modelling, revenue assumptions, capital structure, planning controls, and site geometry into a single evaluative system.

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The Traditional Workflow

Feasibility is typically fragmented across disconnected tools and consultants:

When one variable changes, everything must be manually recalculated. That is slow. And fragile.

  • Excel spreadsheets for financial modelling
  • External planning and zoning consultants
  • Cost consultants and QS firms
  • Disconnected GIS and mapping tools
  • Static CAD and design files
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The Giraffe Approach

Giraffe binds financial logic, engineering constraints, market assumptions, and spatial data inside a single computational engine.

When geometry changes → capital outcomes update. When costs shift → yield recalculates. When assumptions evolve → scenarios re-run instantly.

No manual stitching. No broken models.

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What You Get

  • Spatial Data Meets Financial Modelling — Geometry bound directly to area schedules, cost plans, and revenue models.
  • Multi-Lens Opportunity Assessment — Financial, engineering, regulatory, and demographic dimensions — simultaneously.
  • From Site Discovery to Investment Committee — Pipeline management, scenario comparison, and board-ready outputs.
  • Built for Your Product Standards — Reusable templates, custom workflows, and portfolio scalability.
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Spatial Data Meets Financial Modelling

Unlike spreadsheet-based feasibility tools, Giraffe connects site geometry directly to financial modelling. Draw a building on the map and Gross Floor Area (GFA), revenue, cost, and return metrics update in real time. Adjust an assumption and every dependent metric recalculates instantly.

  • Live Geometry–Finance Link: Every building footprint is bound to area schedules, cost plans, efficiency ratios, and revenue models.
  • Real-Time Recalculation: Modify costs, rents, sales rates, cap rates, or capital structure and see outcomes update across IRR, yield on cost, and residual land value.
  • Structured & Auditable: Every input, formula, and output is versioned, traceable, and governed — not hidden in cell references.

Multi-Lens Opportunity Assessment

Development feasibility is multi-dimensional. Giraffe evaluates opportunity across financial, engineering, regulatory, demographic, and spatial dimensions — simultaneously.

  • Financial Modelling: Express complex pro forma logic exactly as you would in internal underwriting models — structured, repeatable, and auditable.
  • Engineering Awareness: Integrate infrastructure load, parking demand, servicing requirements, and site constraints directly into feasibility logic.
  • Regulatory Encoding: Model zoning controls, FSR, height limits, setbacks, envelopes, and planning overlays as executable constraints.
  • Scenario & Sensitivity Testing: Stress test cost escalation, absorption rates, cap rate shifts, construction timelines, and density trade-offs in one environment.

From Site Discovery to Investment Committee

Giraffe covers the full development feasibility workflow: identify sites using parcel search and spatial data layers, qualify them against zoning and constraints, generate scenarios, and produce investment-ready analysis — all in one governed platform.

  • Pipeline Management: Track acquisition targets and feasibility studies in a structured portfolio view.
  • Side-by-Side Comparison: Rank opportunities against your investment thesis using consistent metrics.
  • Board-Ready Outputs: Export structured reports, exhibits, and audit trails for capital partners and investment committees.
From Site Discovery to Investment Committee

Built for Your Product Standards

Encode your organisation's product types, cost benchmarks, efficiency assumptions, and approval thresholds directly into Giraffe. Your team works from shared templates and governed logic, producing consistent feasibility analysis aligned with your capital strategy.

  • Reusable Templates: Standardise hurdle rates, cost libraries, contingency rules, and approval criteria across teams.
  • Custom Workflows: Mirror your firm's acquisition, underwriting, and capital approval process.
  • Portfolio Scalability: Apply the same feasibility logic across markets while preserving local zoning nuance and cost variation.
Built for Your Product Standards

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